Classes

TTh 1:30–2:45 Boylston 237 Reading of the entire second half of Virgil’s Aeneid, with attention to meter and focus on improving Latin skills. Consideration of relationship to and differences from the first half, rewriting of Homer, Italian interests and emphasis, ideology...

Thursdays 6–8 (on campus) Boylston 104 Reading and translation of selections of Ovid's epic poem. Attention to matters literary, mythological, and metrical.

TTh 1:30–2:45 Boylston 237 Examines a selection of poems from both works in detail, to illuminate Horace's poetic development, attitudes to politics, patrons and power, and his philosophy of life.

Th 3–5 Boylston 237 Exploration of the pragmatics of the intertextual relationship of Hellenistic poetry to the prior Greek tradition, and of republican, Augustan, and imperial Roman poets' further complicating of and building on this practice. Particular attention to the...

Thursdays 6–8 (on campus) Boylston 104 Syllabus A reading of Cicero's letters with attention to style and content.